Multimedia Audio and Video in Linux

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XFree86 era documentation.

 

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Most modern desktop Linux distributions offer all of the complete audio and video multimedia features available on the Macintosh and Windows PC. Everything from DVD, Mpeg, Streaming, Mp3, DivX, and so on can be played, edited, and copied just the same as on the other two popular OS platforms.

One great advantage to media on Linux is - no built-in DRM!

XFree86, KDE, Gnome

Amarok

· KDE

Kaboodle

kdemultimedia-kaboodle (deprecated)

· KDE

KMPlayer

Media player for KDE. The KMPlayer KPart plugin for Konqueror mimics QuickTime, MS Media Player and RealPlayer plugin browser plugins.

· KDE

KPlayer

· KDE multimedia player.

· video, audio and subtitle playback from file, URL, DVD, VCD, audio CD, TV, DVB, and KDE I/O Slaves;

· volume, contrast, brightness, hue and saturation controls;

· zooming, full screen and fixed aspect options;

· status and progress display and seeking;

· multimedia library to organize your media files and streams;

· configuration dialog;

· file properties for setting file specific options.

· KDE

MPlayer

Movie and video player. You can start MPlayer as a command line program with mplayer. Invoke the GUI with as gmplayer.

· MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5

· Windows Media 7/8/9

· RealAudio/Video up to 9

· Quicktime 5/6

· VCD/DVD playback

· KDE & Gnome

· Console / Command Shell

Rhythmbox

iTunes like music management application designed for Gnome.

· Internet Radio support

· Gnome

Totem

Video media player designed for Gnome.

· DVD, VCD, Video

· Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists

· Gnome

XMMS

XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. It was modeled after winamp from the Windows operating system.

· MP3

· Wav

· Modules

· KDE & Gnome

Console

Text mode audio and video players for the command shell.

CMus - C* Music Player

Ncurses music player.

· FLAC

· Ogg/Vorbis

· MP3 (libmad)

· Wav

· Modules (libmodplug)

MOC — Console Audio Player for Linux

Ncurses audio player.

Mp3blaster

Ncurses all text audio player.

· MP3

Orpheus

Ncurses music player.

· CDs

· MP3

· Vorbis OGG

· Stream broadcasts